Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly.
New American Standard Bible
My
King James Version
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Holman Bible
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being
International Standard Version
Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.
A Conservative Version
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
American Standard Version
Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea , my soul and my body.
Amplified
Be gracious and compassionate to me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also.
Bible in Basic English
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
Darby Translation
Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
King James 2000
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.
Modern King James verseion
Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.
NET Bible
Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
New Heart English Bible
Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
The Emphasized Bible
Show me favour, O Yahweh, for in distress am I, - Wasted with vexation, is mine eye - my soul and my body;
Webster
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.
World English Bible
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Youngs Literal Translation
Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.
Themes
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:9
Prayers for Psalm 31:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
8 And thou didst not shut me up in the hand of the enemy: thou didst cause my feet to stand in a broad place. 9 Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly. 10 For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 6:7
Mine eye fell away from grief; it grew old among all mine enemies.
Job 17:7
And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.
Job 33:19-22
And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually.
Psalm 6:1-2
To the overseer upon the stringed instruments upon the octave, chanting of David. O Jehovah, not in thine anger wilt thou correct me, and not in thy wrath wilt thou chastise me.
Psalm 22:14-15
I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalm 38:1-10
Chanting of David to bring to remembrance.
Psalm 44:25
For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth.
Psalm 66:14
Which my lips opened and my month spake in straits to me.
Psalm 73:14
And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings.
Psalm 73:26
My flesh failed and my heart: the rock of my heart and my portion is God forever.
Psalm 88:3-5
For my soul was filled with evils, and my life touched upon hades.
Psalm 88:9
Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.
Psalm 102:3-5
For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.
Psalm 107:10
They sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound with affliction and iron.
Lamentations 4:17
Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart was languid; for this our eyes were darkened.